@space-djc.bsky.social
The dismantling of NASA and JPL is the saddest most self-destructive actions from this administration. Both agencies have led the world in space science with incalculable spinoff of technology to the private sector. Once a source of national pride, we now look at this destruction with shame.
The Destruction of NASA’s Mission” Whistleblowers reveal OMB’s Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil... #NASA #IAC #IAC2025
www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil... #NASA #IAC #IAC2025
September 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The dismantling of NASA and JPL is the saddest most self-destructive actions from this administration. Both agencies have led the world in space science with incalculable spinoff of technology to the private sector. Once a source of national pride, we now look at this destruction with shame.
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UGC 12914 and UGC 12915 collided 25 million years ago. Despite their history, they’ve moved on and started building bridges between each other. After their big collision, gas was pulled from each galaxy, creating a stream of stellar material. #astronomy
Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
September 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
UGC 12914 and UGC 12915 collided 25 million years ago. Despite their history, they’ve moved on and started building bridges between each other. After their big collision, gas was pulled from each galaxy, creating a stream of stellar material. #astronomy
Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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A stunning view of the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae!
The Trifid Nebula features colourful clouds and dark lanes shaped by newborn stars. To the right, the Lagoon Nebula is another active star-forming region, sculpted by young stars
(Video by Universal-Sci/Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)
The Trifid Nebula features colourful clouds and dark lanes shaped by newborn stars. To the right, the Lagoon Nebula is another active star-forming region, sculpted by young stars
(Video by Universal-Sci/Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)
July 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A stunning view of the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae!
The Trifid Nebula features colourful clouds and dark lanes shaped by newborn stars. To the right, the Lagoon Nebula is another active star-forming region, sculpted by young stars
(Video by Universal-Sci/Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)
The Trifid Nebula features colourful clouds and dark lanes shaped by newborn stars. To the right, the Lagoon Nebula is another active star-forming region, sculpted by young stars
(Video by Universal-Sci/Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)
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The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from Hubble observations, took more than 10 years of data collecting and was created from more than 600 snapshots!
➡️ And it's available for download in really large sizes: go.nasa.gov/44Uvyhc 🔭 🧪
➡️ And it's available for download in really large sizes: go.nasa.gov/44Uvyhc 🔭 🧪
July 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from Hubble observations, took more than 10 years of data collecting and was created from more than 600 snapshots!
➡️ And it's available for download in really large sizes: go.nasa.gov/44Uvyhc 🔭 🧪
➡️ And it's available for download in really large sizes: go.nasa.gov/44Uvyhc 🔭 🧪
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Second Budget Cut Rally At NASA Glenn
"The purpose of the event (20 July 2025) is to bring attention to proposed severe cuts to NASA funding and jobs, to call on northeast Ohio’s Congressional representatives to oppose these cuts" More: nasawatch.com/activism/sec...
"The purpose of the event (20 July 2025) is to bring attention to proposed severe cuts to NASA funding and jobs, to call on northeast Ohio’s Congressional representatives to oppose these cuts" More: nasawatch.com/activism/sec...
Second Budget Cut Rally At NASA Glenn
Stand Up for Science, Cleveland Organizes Rally for NASA Glenn on Anniversary of Moon Landing
nasawatch.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Second Budget Cut Rally At NASA Glenn
"The purpose of the event (20 July 2025) is to bring attention to proposed severe cuts to NASA funding and jobs, to call on northeast Ohio’s Congressional representatives to oppose these cuts" More: nasawatch.com/activism/sec...
"The purpose of the event (20 July 2025) is to bring attention to proposed severe cuts to NASA funding and jobs, to call on northeast Ohio’s Congressional representatives to oppose these cuts" More: nasawatch.com/activism/sec...
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It was all about helping the rich get richer. Nothing else.
July 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
It was all about helping the rich get richer. Nothing else.
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Nice! I hope this works.
JUST IN: The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians and other major national public health groups just filed a lawsuit against RFK Jr. to defend science-backed vaccine policy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
National Public Health Groups Sue RFK Jr. Over Vaccine Policy
www.huffpost.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Nice! I hope this works.
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Nasa astronaut on ISS, caught this sprite over Mexico and the US this morning. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. Source: NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers
July 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Nasa astronaut on ISS, caught this sprite over Mexico and the US this morning. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. Source: NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers
Wow! Go to the website and look at this in full resolution!
Ancient Tales of Tithonium Chasma - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2eqCGah
July 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Wow! Go to the website and look at this in full resolution!
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Whoa.
That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today.
With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.
That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today.
With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.
July 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Whoa.
That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today.
With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.
That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today.
With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.
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An alien visitor is whizzing through our solar system at VERY high speed! Called 3I/ATLAS, I have everything we know about this odd object so far.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/another-al...
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badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/another-al...
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Another alien visitor to our solar system!
3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object seen zipping through our neighborhood
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
An alien visitor is whizzing through our solar system at VERY high speed! Called 3I/ATLAS, I have everything we know about this odd object so far.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/another-al...
🧪 🔭
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/another-al...
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I cannot articulate to you how damaging this will be to NASA science and to the scientific leadership of the United States generally.
To say nothing of the precedence of the White House and NASA leadership simply ignoring Congress.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
To say nothing of the precedence of the White House and NASA leadership simply ignoring Congress.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act
“We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well.”…
arstechnica.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I cannot articulate to you how damaging this will be to NASA science and to the scientific leadership of the United States generally.
To say nothing of the precedence of the White House and NASA leadership simply ignoring Congress.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
To say nothing of the precedence of the White House and NASA leadership simply ignoring Congress.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
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Breathtaking: Two interacting galaxies (Arp-Madore 608-333) warping each other through a mutual gravitational interaction
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/Department of Energy/Fermilab/Dark Energy Camera/Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory/NOIRLab/AURA)
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/Department of Energy/Fermilab/Dark Energy Camera/Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory/NOIRLab/AURA)
July 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Breathtaking: Two interacting galaxies (Arp-Madore 608-333) warping each other through a mutual gravitational interaction
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/Department of Energy/Fermilab/Dark Energy Camera/Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory/NOIRLab/AURA)
(Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/Department of Energy/Fermilab/Dark Energy Camera/Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory/NOIRLab/AURA)
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Arp 105, nicknamed "The Guitar" for its shape, is a striking merger between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy.
Their interaction has created a tidal tail of stars and gas stretching over 362,000 light-years!
(Credit: NASA, ESA and M. West; Processing: Gladys Kober)
Their interaction has created a tidal tail of stars and gas stretching over 362,000 light-years!
(Credit: NASA, ESA and M. West; Processing: Gladys Kober)
July 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Arp 105, nicknamed "The Guitar" for its shape, is a striking merger between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy.
Their interaction has created a tidal tail of stars and gas stretching over 362,000 light-years!
(Credit: NASA, ESA and M. West; Processing: Gladys Kober)
Their interaction has created a tidal tail of stars and gas stretching over 362,000 light-years!
(Credit: NASA, ESA and M. West; Processing: Gladys Kober)
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Earlier today, a small meteoroid exploded high in the atmosphere over northern Georgia.
That explosion was imaged from space by the GOES-19 satellite.
Credit: NOAA/CIRA (h/t @cira-csu.bsky.social)
That explosion was imaged from space by the GOES-19 satellite.
Credit: NOAA/CIRA (h/t @cira-csu.bsky.social)
June 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Earlier today, a small meteoroid exploded high in the atmosphere over northern Georgia.
That explosion was imaged from space by the GOES-19 satellite.
Credit: NOAA/CIRA (h/t @cira-csu.bsky.social)
That explosion was imaged from space by the GOES-19 satellite.
Credit: NOAA/CIRA (h/t @cira-csu.bsky.social)
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Kid-at-xmas levels of excitement (did I wake up at 5am - yes I did!) #RubinFirstLook
The Virgo cluster is an inspired choice: three-cheers for Sinclair Smith and his 1936 observations of it which helped Zwicky conclude there must be invisible #darkmatter out there! 🤓 🔭🧪
📷 @vrubinobs.bsky.social
The Virgo cluster is an inspired choice: three-cheers for Sinclair Smith and his 1936 observations of it which helped Zwicky conclude there must be invisible #darkmatter out there! 🤓 🔭🧪
📷 @vrubinobs.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Kid-at-xmas levels of excitement (did I wake up at 5am - yes I did!) #RubinFirstLook
The Virgo cluster is an inspired choice: three-cheers for Sinclair Smith and his 1936 observations of it which helped Zwicky conclude there must be invisible #darkmatter out there! 🤓 🔭🧪
📷 @vrubinobs.bsky.social
The Virgo cluster is an inspired choice: three-cheers for Sinclair Smith and his 1936 observations of it which helped Zwicky conclude there must be invisible #darkmatter out there! 🤓 🔭🧪
📷 @vrubinobs.bsky.social
BREAKING🚨: NASA finds unknown object in deep space that's sending mysterious signals to Earth every 44 minutes
June 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A newly discovered object in our galaxy, named ASKAP J1832-0911, is emitting strange signals that repeat every 44 minutes. These signals, consisting of both radio waves and X-rays, last for two minutes and are unlike anything astronomers have previously observed. About 15,000 light-years away.
BREAKING🚨: NASA finds unknown object in deep space that's sending mysterious signals to Earth every 44 minutes
June 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A newly discovered object in our galaxy, named ASKAP J1832-0911, is emitting strange signals that repeat every 44 minutes. These signals, consisting of both radio waves and X-rays, last for two minutes and are unlike anything astronomers have previously observed. About 15,000 light-years away.